My Own Personal Holocaust Denier July 9, 2017

Recently, I learned that a person, married into my family ( and we are all very estranged) is a Holocaust denier. At the time I found out (quite by accident) I actually thought I would vomit. I shook. I knew this person was opinionated and narrow-minded but this is one that never even occurred to me. Coincidentally, I had just recently seen “Denial” (read the book quite a few years ago) and “Remember”; both of which impressed me and both of which presented aspects of this hideous event in detail. Each was excellent. I should add I am a Jew. although quite secular and I am very pro-Israel – but this is not really the point when it comes to this event. Is it?

Holocaust denial is a crime in many countries – for its ugliness but also for its enormous lie. It did happen and it has been proven to have happened and continues to be written about and substantiated repeatedly as fact. I have read extensively on subject from my teens.

It is a felony in many countries to express Holocaust denial and people go to jail. I imagine this is a case for many who run into one. They can try to call them out to those in authority and it is very tempting. I shall leave it at that.

It actually doesn’t make much sense for Jew Haters to deny it. In the process of their hate, it should be something they cherish. After all if you hate Jews, the death of millions should fill you with delight. For some reason those bigots don’t express this. They have decided that the Jews made it up for sympathy? Profit? Publicity? I have no idea what they think. But when it hits close to ones own life – in any way – it baffles and disgusts. Not enough to debate or argue the point with the bigot -that’s a losing proposition. Deniers are cemented to the denial. And I find them sickening. Period. I don’t want to know them. But it is important to know who they are.

But here is a far more provoking question. How would one even go about creating such a hoax? The Nazis who created the factual Holocaust eventually got what they deserved at the war’s end. Those who tried to deny it or escape the legal system hid. And what a life that must have been! Determined men, like Wiesenthal and his dedicated seekers pursued them relentlessly. They routed out so many and were so diligent – a Nazi criminal on the lam must have been a nervous wreck (just like the Jews and others they sought, found and murdered). But think about the idea of a hoax itself. What would have inspired anyone to imagine this horror and supply specious evidence to prove it? How could be done? There was no social media or iPhones to create rumors or photoshopped evidence and who would have volunteered to take on the role of a skeletal, tortured victim or a corpse? The denier’s usual comeback is that the numbers were inflated. That it was not possible for such a thing to have been carried out on anything (that sort of insults their heroes) but a small scale and it was therefore okay for something of this nature to take place – but not the way the attention starved bleeding hearts claimed. But the facts betray the denial. Not just anguished survivors told their stories; educated, erudite and relentless men – not wanting to simply take a survivors word did the research. They made it their business to dig deeply into the material that existed and supported the facts.

David Irving was one notorious man who insisted it was a hoax. He was revealed in British court to be a liar and a bigot. Neo Nazis, who should be proud of their clever and inspiring German forebears , should embrace it as a stellar accomplishment. Which makes the deniers an even more deluded crowd. They can’t have it both ways. On the one hand these race-pure monsters did a very substantial job of making the Reich Judenfrei and at the same time, the deniers want it be a mythic hoax created by Jews to exaggerate exactly what? Do they think the Reich did a monumental job or did they get blindsided by the Jews who made it up; this very act they love the Nazis for doing. Which is it?

My recently discovered denier insists that the latter is true and the “Jews” made it much worse than it was – but how could even one murdered person, murdered for their race alone be okay? A town of Jews or the starvation of a Jew (or a homosexual, or Rom or impaired person?) is okay? What they would like us to believe is that it was an okay thing to murder Jews, but the ones who survived spun it to be a crime against humanity. That damaged humans who escaped, invented their own history to match that of other survivors. That Jews share a cosmic consciousness that psychically collaborated to tell the same story when questioned? Seriously? That we all think alike and remember the same things that, in their minds, didn’t happen?

This apparently is what my own personal denier believes. This is what made me shake and fight nausea.

No, I did not say the name or the relationship. It is enough for me to know and it is enough for that person to know I know. And now you know. If you know me you may wonder and may even realize. But I now know and that is more than I ever wanted.

Are you insane? Or just a bigoted denier? I believe the evidence speaks for itself. And frankly I find your position untenable and can not imagine why you believe anyone in their right mind would perpetuate such a vile position. There are no alleged death camps. They existed and your friends the Nazis appear to be very proud of their exterminations. You may comment all you like but I should inform you that this is an historical fact and such denial is actually illegal in many countries. As a believer in free speech I can not object to your comment in principle, but its content offends and disgusts me.